Rooney Mara Quotes

I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any food? Do you need the bathroom?"

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.

Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year.

There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do ... 'You're going to be raped, be naked ... ' but as soon as he was like, 'You're going to have to ride a motorcycle,' I was like, 'Oh, really?'

On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense.

I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

. . . people want girls -- to be grateful, gracious, poised. Not real.

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be.